How To Upgrade OpenSUSE 11.3 To 11.4 (Desktop & Server)

This guide shows how you can upgrade your OpenSUSE 11.3 desktop and server installations to OpenSUSE 11.4.

This document comes without warranty of any kind! I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

1 Preliminary Note

The upgrade can be done on the command line or via the YaST module Wagon (if you are on an OpenSUSE desktop). Since the Wagon method is less tested than the command line update, we will use the command line method here for both servers and desktops.

2 Installing the Latest Updates

Before we do the distribution upgrade, we install the latest updates for OpenSUSE 11.3. Open a terminal/command line window and run

zypper repos --uri

to check what repositories are used and enabled on the system. Make sure that the line that contains http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.3/ in the URI column reads Yes in the Enabled column (in this example the Alias is repo-update and the Name is openSUSE-11.3-Update, but these values can differ; the important column is the URI column):

(If the zypper repos --uri command from chapter 2 displayed any third-party repositories, please check if these third-party repositories are available for OpenSUSE 11.4 as well; if they are, add them as follows:

I have installed OpenSUSE 11.3 on my vps (this is the only version in the control panel of my provider). Now i wanted to upgrade 11.3 to 11.4 and finally to 12.1. I followed the above instructies and after i run zypper dup it goes wrong: